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News items on 'Amputation'
Sock 'helps to prevent pain in amputees'
(The Scotsman 20/11/2009)
AMPUTEES who suffer "phantom" pains from their removed limbs could be helped by a new treatment in Edinburgh. Medics at the Astley Ainslie Hospital in Morningside have developed a special sock which led 90 per cent of patients to report a reduction in the pain they were experiencing. Phantom pain haunts some people who have had amputations, and is a sore feeling caused even though the limb is absent.
Medics face 'awe-inspiring' task
(BBC 04/11/2009)
A Kent GP has spoken of the tough demands facing medics working to save the lives of soldiers injured serving in Afghanistan. Col Peter Gilbert, from Rochester, is in charge of the main field hospital at Camp Bastion in southern Helmand. He said some injuries were worse than the NHS would ever see, including regular cases of lost limbs. "We are seeing injuries here on an almost daily basis that nobody in the health service will ever see," he said.
'I cried and cried'
(BBC 11/10/2009)
A woman has been paid more than £100,000 in an out-of-court settlement after her leg was amputated unnecessarily because a lump was mistaken for cancer. Doreen Nicholls, from Halesowen, in the West Midlands, was being treated at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham for the lump, which had appeared on her foot after surgery to have two toes shortened. The lump was actually a rare swelling of the lining of a joint, but it was mistaken for a rare and aggressive soft tissue cancer.
(BBC 08/08/2009)
Abdi Dhuhulow can run a marathon in just over three hours - an impressive feat by most standards. But what makes the 28-year-old's achievement even more special is that he has only one leg. The Somali refugee had to have his other leg amputated below the knee after being shot in the civil war. "In 1991 I was fleeing the city when I got a gunshot wound in the ankle and fell off the lorry on which I was travelling," he said.
Wounded in battle
(BBC 30/07/2009)
Lieutenant Guy Disney, 27, rests a cup of tea on a low table and eases himself back in to an armchair in front of the open fire at his Cotswolds home. The bandaged stump of his right leg sits on a pile of cushions in front of him. Less than a month ago, he was on his first tour of duty with the Light Dragoons, in the front line of the war in Afghanistan. He was leading a troop into a Taliban-controlled area in Helmand province, when his Spartan vehicle was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade.
Rescued arm
(BBC 09/02/2009)
John Stirling is looking forward to lots of things in 2009 - driving his car, doing his garden - and perhaps even tying his own shoelaces and doing up his own belt. Three months ago John, aged 59, from Peacehaven, East Sussex, lost his left forearm in a chainsaw accident while cutting wood in his garden. "I cut my arm off with a saw, which got caught into my jumper," he said.
Chopped arm man can use fingers
(BBC 29/12/2008)
An East Sussex man who chopped his left arm off with a chainsaw has described having it re-attached as like "winning the lottery". John Stirling was cutting wood in his garden in Telscombe Cliffs when the accident happened in September. Mr Stirling can now move his fingers and has been back to work.
Surgeon saves boy's life by text
(BBC 03/12/2008)
A British doctor volunteering in DR Congo used text message instructions from a colleague to perform a life-saving amputation on a boy. Vascular surgeon David Nott helped the 16-year-old while working 24-hour shifts with medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Rutshuru. The boy's left arm had been ripped off and was badly infected and gangrenous.
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